.As the hub of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston holds a selection of special duties and also privileges. Those feature being the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Some of those rocketeers-- Nick Hague-- is right now preparing to launch to the International Space Station alongside Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th rotational objective under NASA's Office Team Plan. This are going to be actually the third launch and also second objective to the spaceport station for Hague, that was decided on as a NASA astronaut in 2013 as well as has actually invested 203 times precede.Hague was actually born and raised in Kansas but has crisscrossed the country for college as well as profession. He got levels from the USA Air Force Institute in Colorado and the Massachusetts Principle of Technology in Cambridge, and he went to the U.S. Air Force Exam Captain University at Edwards Aviation Service Bottom in California. Hague's military career has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., and also consisted of a five-month implementation to Iraq. Hague transmitted from the Flying force to the U.S. Room Force in 2020 after functioning as the Space Force's director of examination and assessment at the Pentagon.No stranger to brand-new places, Hague vividly remembers producing his 1st trip to Johnson when he was interviewing to join NASA's astronaut corps. "I possessed no tip what to anticipate, and also it was a little bit difficult. I understood every person was actually seeing me and also determining me," he pointed out. "Fortunately, despite the fact that I wasn't selected then, I obtained another odds a handful of years later on. It's a quite magical location.".Hague completed his rocketeer instruction in July 2015 as part of NASA's 21st rocketeer course. He was the very first astronaut from that team to become designated to a goal, which launched in October 2018 however was miscarried shortly after takeoff. His upcoming spaceflight happened in 2019, when he participated in 3 of his friends-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and also Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has brought in many minds at Johnson, but one that stands out is his knowledge functioning onsite surrounded by the 2013 government cessation. "I am actually active-duty army so I still came to operate," he explained. "I don't forget being onsite as well as the center being actually completely empty. Having the capacity to ride around an empty grounds on the free-range bikes-- it was actually peaceful as well as surreal." It was also a sneak peek of what several Johnson staff members experienced throughout the pandemic and just how NASA maintains nonstop help for spaceflight procedures regardless of extenuating conditions.Hague now expects one more adventure to low Earth orbit. NASA and also SpaceX representatives currently consider to introduce the Crew-9 purpose no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The workers will definitely lift off from Introduce Complicated 40 coming from the Cape Canaveral Space Troop Terminal in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and Dragon space capsule.Hague and also Gorbonov will certainly become members of the Trip 72 crew aboard the terminal. They are going to sign up with NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, as well as will certainly spend regarding six months performing scientific study in microgravity and also finishing a variety of operational activities just before coming back home.Even more details about the objective and also crew may be located by adhering to the Crew-9 blog site, @commercial_crew on X, or even industrial team on Facebook. You can likewise comply with @astrohague on X and also Instagram.